linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmlinux.lds.h: lower init ramfs alignment to 4

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Date:	Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:19:54 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmlinux.lds.h: lower init ramfs alignment to 4

Andrew: could you pick this up ?  no feedback after this last version
was posted ...
-mike

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 23:33, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> The new init ramfs format (cpio based) requires an alignment of 4 (per the
> documentation and per the source files themselves).  As for compressed
> sources, the decompressors can all deal with unaligned buffers.
>
> The cpio source is also found in the __init sections of the kernel, so
> once they are read and expanded into a tmpfs, the source is freed.  That
> means there is no need to force page alignment here either.
>
> This has been used on Blackfin systems for many releases without issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> index 48c5299..14a01b6 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
>  #define INIT_RAM_FS                                                    \
> -       . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);                                           \
> +       . = ALIGN(4);                                                   \
>        VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_start) = .;                          \
>        *(.init.ramfs)                                                  \
>        VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_end) = .;
> --
> 1.7.1
>
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